At the 'Map me if you will' symposium at Pixelache 2011, Alessandro Ludovico presented the last project he worked on together with Paolo Cirio. Face to Facebook extracts portrait pics from the Facebook website and uses them for a fake dating website called Lovely Faces that is currently down. In addition, a project website documents this artistic intervention. Now new legal action was taken against the project. Here is the press release that Alessando and Paolo distributed on April 7.

Legal update:After sending us a "cease and desist letter" (which led to making the website Lovely-Faces.com unavailable), asking us to give them back the 1M publicly available data and terminating our Facebook personal accounts, Facebook lawyers are continuing to follow up with us. First they are insisting on asking us to remove all the content from the Face-to-Facebook.net domain, which is the website documenting the project. This request sounds quite surreal for us: this website merely contains a collection of texts, materials and links related to Face-to-Facebook project. Even more, we have received a threat from Facebook legal department about the claim that the face-to-facebook.net domain name is violating Facebook's trademark.So, why should such a big online corporation push a couple of artists to remove the documentation of their project? Our lawyers are investigating the legal basis of their request.